Marty Wingate
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Marty Wingate gardens, writes and leads garden tours to the U.K. and Ireland, bringing home ideas for gardeners, travelers and garden travelers. Her features appear every Saturday in the Seattle@home section of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She writes for national magazines, including Fine Gardening, The American Gardener, and Country Gardens. She is the author of The Bellevue Botanical Garden: Celebrating 15 Years (June 2007), Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens, and The Big Book of Northwest Perennials. She has a Master’s degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington, and is active in the Arboretum Foundation, the Northwest Perennial Alliance, the Northwest Horticultural Society, and the Royal Horticultural Society. Marty speaks at events including the Northwest, San Francisco and Philadelphia flower shows. She lives with her husband and two cats in Seattle, where her small garden contains far too many plants. But there’s always room for more!
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